Why did they think the team with the ROGUE and the SHAMAN would lose to the team with the WARRIOR

wut

Contrary to popular belief, due to live ladder being plagued with trinkets that deal more overall damage than any single class ability skewing the image, any plate/hpally "cleave" type comps can be extremely hard for Thug. You see our opener on the warrior? No roar of sac/anything, aimed+chimera+smokebomb+dancing rogue, got him to like 30-40% using absolutely no CD's to survive.

Granted non crit chimera is RNG and it coulda been a stronger opener but, just saying, Vials and Cunnings make a gigantic difference......I mean it's MASSIVE, those trinkets change the game.

Thug cleave with 1-2 vials would actually global anything in the openers we typically do, but most competent teams can survive our openers and drag the fight on relatively easily, due to not having retarded trinkets.

I love this tournament setting without pve trinkets, it's like playing a different game

I think the KFC would have been a lot harder to beat if they played together often and had real practice tbh.

are we watching the same thing? Aside from this DK/ret vs RLS series, most of the games have been random gibs in shadow dance or in a scatter.

That never happened, you are delusional. Our games in particlar and even Diggles PHD games against mls involved every defensive cooldowns used before someone eventually dies slowly. Bubble/Bop/Trinkets/Sac/2x Ice blocks/spirit link/ns and someone widdles down eventually, no one has just randomly died in a scatter/dance rofl.

You are wearing QQ goggles because you hate dying to vial on live, get over it.

Most of these games are long matches, at least 3 mins long and no one has died in a smokebomb yet from what I've seen, and if someone has it's been infrequent.